Electric ! Screen Saver for Windows 95 and Windows NT
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1 License, disclaimer ...
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This program is ABSOLUTE FREEWARE. You have nothing to pay to me.

This program comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY, more especially
not any warranty about saving anything...

2 Installation
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Just copy the file "electric.scr" to your \windows\system (95)
or \windows\system32 (NT) directory and choose "electric" from
the control panel.

3 Configuration
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Electric requires Windows 95 or Windows NT, version 3.51 or more. 

Electric is a computing intensive screen saver.
Although the first version was developped for a 486/66 machine with a 1024*768 display,
the performance will be better with a Pentium and a 640*480 video configuration. 

The animation of the images will only run if your video configuration is set to 256 colors.
With True Color or 16 bit configuration Electric will only display static images.
With a 16 colors configuration, the result will be just terrible. 

Does it mean that you have to drop True Color and high resolution
to change your video setting down to 640*480 pixels with 256 colors ?
The answer is definitely no. Since version 1.2, Electric ! is able
to change automatically the video resolution at startup,
by using Microsoft's DirectX.
You can keep your usual configuration ; all you have to do is to
install Microsoft's DirectX and to check the "Allow DirectX
display mode change" box in Electric!'s settings. 

4 Bug reports, etc...
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If you have a bug to report, a suggestion to do, or if you just
want to tell me how it changed your life, you may email me at :

JX Bardant
bardant@club-internet.fr

If you want to get more information about _Electric !_, or if
you want to get the last release, check the _Electric !_ home
page at :

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/1140/electric.html

5 What's new in version 1.3
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* Optimized : The time necessary for computing a new image is much shorter when the DirectX option is used 
* Added : Electric can now display a line of "subliminal" text. Well, it's not really subliminal but you get the idea. 
* Added : Tiling and blurring effects 
* Added : New color palettes 
* Fixed : The DirectX option now woks with NT 4.0. 
* Fixed : Monitor power saving now works when the DirectX option is used. 
* Fixed : The screen saver no longer stops when a dialog box pops up in DirectX mode. 

6 What was new in version 1.2
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* Added : DirectX support for color mode switching under Windows 95.
* Added : Ability to change the animation speed.
* Added : Ability to choose color palettes.
* Added : Full screen preview allowing to change options 'on the fly'.
* Fixed : Screen scan option of the McAffee anti-virus stops the screen saver.


7 What was new in version 1.1
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* Added : configuration possibilities with a preview window,
so that you can see at once what the screens will look like
* Added : ability to ignore mouse movements
* Corrected bugs in 256 colors mode : 1) too fast animation when
the multimedia player is in the background ;
2) incorrect colors after the saver stops
* Improved : smoother color palette in 256 colors mode

